SMALL GROUP CLASSES ON ZOOM  LEVELS: Beginners / Intermediate In giro per Roma / Strolling through Rome with Cristina Baccin

Are you longing to travel this summer? Do you want to keep up your Italian language skills while you are at home? Treat yourself with this workshop to review and refresh your Italian and visit Rome virtually with me! Learn, practice, and review your Italian with this new online course starting in July!
Join me for a LIVE ONLINE Zoom ITALIAN Workshop!

We will explore and take an online stroll through Rome; we´ll practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Italian. We´ll watch short videos of famous and not so well known places in Rome such as San Pietro, l´Isola Tiberina, il giardino degli Aranci o il Campo dei Fiori (“Pillole di Roma”, Casa delle Lingue). Our sightseeing visits to these sites will allow us to explore both the Italian language and culture: we will practice conversation and exercises in a small group atmosphere (handouts will be provided).

DATES: ONCE PER WEEK / 6 WEEKS

BEGINNER *	INTERMEDIATE
Tuesdays,  4 to 5:15 pm	Thursdays, 4 to 5:15pm
July 7	July 9
July 14	July 16
July 21	July 23
July 28	July 30
August 4	August 6
August 11	August 13

* Workshop for Beginners is to review topics that you already learned in Levels I to III or in a semester at college)

TOTAL PARTICIPANTS:  Maximum 8 persons per class (Min. to enroll : 4 persons/If we don´t reach the minimum, your fee will be refunded)

For questions about which Workshop is suitable for your learning process and registration email: italiano1400@aol.com

Zoom meeting invitations will be sent upon registration.

WHAT DO YOU NEED?: You can learn comfortably online as long as you have a computer, a good Internet connection, and a quiet space. My online live sessions are delivered via Zoom and require just basic computer knowledge. This is NOT a recorded class.  Thus, it requires your active participation during each session. If you are not familiar with Zoom, I am available to guide you on the first day prior to our meeting at 3:30 pm.

I teach Italian especially to English speakers (but not only) in the United States since 2007. First I started teaching children and then adults in the state of Virginia. I received a Master´s Degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language from the prestigious University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy); and I am also Certified in Teaching of Italian as a Foreign Language (DILS-LI) by the same University. The Master’s Degree and the Certification give me a qualification in language teaching related to the teaching of Italian L2 which is evaluated in competitions, selections and job interviews both in Italy and abroad. I particularly like to teach for levels A1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

I am deeply convinced that we all can learn a new language, regardless of our age. We only need to get rid ourselves of perfectionism, especially during the first stages of learning. I really love to learn languages, so in my life I learned five languages: Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese (and German reading). My “recipe” to learning Italian just requires a few “ingredients”: a smile, an adventurous spirit, and kindness to ourselves and others.

I bring to the class my experience of more than thirty years as a Professor in journalism, social communication, and mass media in the Universities of Argentina and Spain. In the US, today I am a bilingual radio-journalist, and I also work as a translator and editor. 

As my father Livio was from Treviso (Veneto), I love prosecco; and as my mother Ambra is from Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige), my favorite Southern Tyrol food is speck. I go crazy for gelato and coffee, and I love cooking, gardening, cycling, traveling the world, and dancing tango. A presto!! ©Cristina Baccin